Endurance: Heroic Journeys in Ireland.

EnduranceAuthor: SOMERS, Dermot.

Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2005. 255 pages. Illustrated. Maps. Paperback.

Kidnap, murder, power, faith, scholarship, survival and, above all, sheer endurance - all are themes in Dermot Somers’ graphic accounts of heroic travels through Ireland, from Iron Age myth to the dawn of modern Ireland.

Covering Queen Medb and the Cattle Raid of Cooley, Caoilte, Captain de Cuellar of the Spanish Armada, Red Hugh O’Donnell, O’Sullivan Beare, and Michael O’Clery on his travels to preserve Irish lore and learning in the Annals of the Four Masters.

ISBN: 0862787971